In whose image was The Adam – the prototype of modern
humans, Homo sapiens – created?

The Bible asserts that the Elohim said: “Let us
fashion the Adam in our image and after our likeness.” But if one is to accept
a tentative explanation for enigmatic genes that humans possess, offered when the
deciphering of the human genome was announced in mid-February, the feat was
decided upon by a group of bacteria!

“Humbling” was the prevalent adjective used by the
scientific teams and the media to describe the principal finding – that the
human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 - 140,000 genes (the stretches of
DNA that direct the production of amino-acids and proteins) but only some
30,000+ -- little more than double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and barely
fifty percent more than the roundworm’s 19,098.What a comedown from the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of
Life!

Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human
genes. They are comparative to not the presumed 95 percent but to almost 99
percent of the chimpanzees, and 70 percent of the mouse. Human genes, with the
same functions, were found to be identical to genes of other vertebrates, as
well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast. The findings not only
confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on Earth, but also
enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process – how more complex
organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each stage the
genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form –
culminating with Homo sapiens.

The “Head-scratching” Discovery

It was here, in tracing the vertical evolutionary
record contained in the human and the other analyzed genomes, that the
scientists ran into an enigma. The “head-scratching discovery by the public
consortium,” as Science termed it, was that the human genome contains 223
genes that do not have the required predecessors on the genomic
evolutionary tree.

How did Man acquire such a bunch of enigmatic genes?

In the evolutionary progression from bacteria to
invertebrates (such as the lineages of yeast, worms, flies or mustard weed –
which have been deciphered) to vertebrates (mice, chimpanzees) and finally
modern humans, these 223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate
phase.
Therefore, the scientists can explain their presence in the human genome by a
“rather recent” (in evolutionary time scales) “probable horizontal
transfer from bacteria.”

In other words: At a relatively recent time as Evolution
goes, modern humans acquired an extra 223 genes not through gradual evolution,
not vertically on the Tree of Life, but horizontally, as a sideways insertion of
genetic
material from bacteria…

An Immense Difference

Now, at first glance it would seem that 223 genes is no
big deal. In fact, while every single gene makes a great difference to every
individual, 223 genes make an immense difference to a species such as ours.

The human genome is made up of about three billion
neucleotides (the “letters” A-C-G-T which stand for the initials of the four nucleic
acids that spell out all life on Earth); of them, just a little more than one
percent are grouped into functioning genes (each gene consists of thousands of
"letters"). The difference between one individual person and another amounts to
about one “letter” in a thousand in the DNA “alphabet.” The difference
between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one percent as genes go; and one percent
of 30,000 genes is 300.

So, 223 genes is more than two thirds of the difference
between me, you and a chimpanzee!

An analysis of the functions of these genes through the
proteins that they spell out, conducted by the Public Consortium team and
published in the journal Nature, shows that they include not only
proteins involved in important physiological but also psychiatric
functions. Moreover, they are responsible for important neurological enzymes that stem only from the mitochondrial portion of
the DNA – the so-called “Eve” DNA that humankind inherited only through
the mother-line, all the way back to a single “Eve.” That finding
alone raises doubt regarding that the "bacterial insertion"
explanation.

A Shaky Theory

How sure are the scientists that such important and
complex genes, such an immense human advantage, was obtained by us --“rather
recently”-- through the courtesy of infecting bacteria?

“It is a jump that does not follow current evolutionary
theories,” said Steven Scherer, director of mapping of the Human Genome
Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

“We did not identify a strongly preferred bacterial source
for the putative horizontally transferred genes,” states the report in Nature.
The Public Consortium team, conducting a detailed search, found that some 113
genes (out of the 223) “are widespread among bacteria” – though they are
entirely absent even in invertebrates. An analysis of the proteins which the
enigmatic genes express showed that out of 35 identified, only ten had
counterparts in vertebrates (ranging from cows to rodents to fish); 25 of the 35
were unique to humans.

“It is not clear whether the transfer was from
bacteria to human or from human to bacteria,” Science quoted Robert
Waterson, co-director of Washington University’s Genome Sequencing Center, as
saying.

But if Man gave those genes to bacteria, where did Man
acquire those genes to begin with?

The Role of the Anunnaki

Readers of my books must be smiling by now, for they know the
answer.

They know that the biblical verses dealing with the
fashioning of The Adam are condensed renderings of much much more detailed
Sumerian and Akkadian texts, found inscribed on clay tablets, in which the role
of the Elohim in Genesis is performed by the Anunnaki – “Those
Who From Heaven to Earth Came.”

As detailed in my books, beginning with The 12th
Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis Revisited and The Cosmic
Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet
Nibiru – a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it to our part of the heavens once every 3,600 years. They
came here in need of gold, with which to protect their dwindling atmosphere.Exhausted and in need of help in mining the gold, their chief scientist
Enki suggested that they use their genetic knowledge to create the needed
Primitive Workers.When the other leaders of the Anunnaki asked: How can you create
a new being? He answered:

"The being that we need already exists;
all that we
have to do is put our mark on it.”

The time was some 300,000 years ago.

What he had in mind was to upgrade genetically the existing
hominids, who were already on Earth through Evolution, by adding some of the
genes of the more advanced Anunnaki.That
the Anunnaki, who could already travel in space 450,000 years ago, possessed the
genomic science (whose threshold we have now reached) is clear not only from the
actual texts but also from numerous depictions in which the double-helix of the
DNA is rendered as Entwined Serpents (a symbol still used for medicine and
healing) -- see illustration ‘A’ below.

When the leaders of the Anunnaki approved the project
(as echoed in the biblical ”Let us fashion the Adam”), Enki with the help of
Ninharsag, the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki, embarked on a process of
genetic engineering, by adding and combining genes of the Anunnaki with
those of the already-existing hominids.

When, after much trial and error breathtakingly described and
recorded in antiquity, a “perfect model” was attained, Ninharsag held him up
and shouted: “My hands have made it!” An ancient artist depicted the scene
on a cylinder seal (illustration ‘B’).

And that, I suggest, is how we had come to possess the unique
extra genes. It was in the image of the Anunnaki, not of bacteria, that Adam and
Eve were fashioned.

A Matter of Extreme Significance

Unless further scientific research can establish, beyond any
doubt, that the only possible source of the extra genes are indeed bacteria, and
unless it is then also determined that the infection (“horizontal transfer”)
went from bacteria to Man and not from Man to bacteria, the only other available
solution will be that offered by the Sumerian texts millennia ago.

Until then, the enigmatic 223 alien genes will remain as an
alternative – and as a corroboration by modern science of the Anunnaki
and their genetic feats on Earth.